Shreveport Central Railroad Station

	Central Railroad Station
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
Location	1025 Marshall Street, Shreveport, Louisiana
Coordinates	32°30′32″N 93°44′43″W / 32.50878°N 93.74526°W
Area	1.25 acres (0.51 ha)
Built	1910
Architect	Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad
Architectural style	Italian Renaissance, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival
Part of	Shreveport Commercial Historic District (ID82002760)
NRHP reference No.	91000622
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 28, 1991
Designated CP	April 29, 2015

Shreveport Central Station is a historic train station in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was built in 1910 by the Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad, a railroad that was eventually acquired by the Kansas City Southern Railway. (However, the KCS used Union Station ever since 1909.) By the opening of the 1940s the L&A and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway or 'Cotton Belt' moved its passenger operations from Central Station to Shreveport Union Station.^[2]^[3]

Historical recognition[edit]

The building, along with an adjoining small freight depot shortly north of it, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as the Central Railroad Station.^[1]^[4] The building also became a contributing property of Shreveport Commercial Historic District when its boundaries were increased on April 29, 2015.^[5]

The former station currently survives as a gay bar and dance club.^[6]^[7]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Cox, Jim. Rails Across Dixie, McFarland and Company, Inc., 2011, p. 342-43 ISBN 9781476666013.
^ "Index of Railroad Stations". Official Guide of the Railways. 74 (1). National Railway Publication Company. June 1941.
^ National Register Staff (February 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Central Railroad Station". National Park Service. Retrieved April 11, 2018. With seven photos from 1991.
^ "Shreveport Commercial Historic District" (PDF). State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
^ Central Station (Yelp.com)
^ Central Station Shreveport (ClubFly.com)

Preceding station	St. Louis Southwestern Railway			Following station
Terminus		Shreveport – Lewisville until 1940		Brownlee toward Lewisville

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